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Gootloader inside out
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The Gootloader malware family uses a distinctive form of social engineering to infect computers: Its creators lure people to visit compromised, legitimate WordPress websites using hijacked Google search results, present the visitors to these sites with a simulated online message board, and link to the malware from a simulated “conversation” where a fake visitor asks a fake site admin the exact question that the victim was searching for an answer to. Most of the infection process is driven by code that runs on the compromised WordPress server and another server we have previously named “the mothership” that orchestrates an elaborate and complex dance to dynamically produce a page that seemingly answers the exact question you’re asking. Gootloader’s operators make behind the scenes, almost unnoticeable changes to the compromised WordPress sites that cause those sites to load the extra content from the moth...
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